industry
STEP ASIDE VOR
PBN IS TAKING OVER
B Y
D A V I D
H U G H E S ,
F A A
N E X T G E N
THE FAA IS
URGING AIRCRAFT
OPERATORS IN THE
NAS TO SHIFT TO PBN
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january
2017
O U T R E A C H
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R E P O R T I N G
uring the past 12 years, the
Federal Aviation Administration
has published thousands of
Performance-Based Navigation (PBN)
flight procedures, which have built the
foundation for another major agency
goal: Making PBN the primary form of
air navigation in the National Airspace
System.
To help create a PBN-centric NAS, the
FAA published the PBN NAS Navigation
Strategy 2016, which is available online at
http://tinyurl.com/gtayrum.
"Past PBN strategies have focused
on establishing various types of flight
procedures in the NAS, but that is only one
piece of the puzzle," said Joshua Gustin,
FAA senior technical adviser for PBN
implementation. "The key to this new
strategy is to make PBN the primary means
of air navigation in the NAS, in terminal and
en route airspace by aligning all activities
toward that goal."

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